The USNG is a single grid referencing system for the contiguous 48 states. Here’s what the folks in charge of…
Imagery acquired on a particular satellite overflight at a particular place on earth is bundled into a data package called…
Early US Geographical Survey maps used lines of longitude and latitude as tile boundaries. The four-sided figure that you get…
The scheme used by the publisher of The Wisconsin Atlas is a familiar example of a map tiling scheme The…
This is how the president of a geoscience consulting firm reported the location of an old undergound fuel tank to…
CS Type: Projected (Northings/Eastings in feet)Datum/GCS: NAD 83 HARNProjection Algorithm: Transverse MercatorArea of Intended Use: Brown County, Wisconsin
CS Type: Projected (Northings/Eastings in meters)Datum/GCS: NAD 83 HARNProjection Algorithm: Transverse MercatorArea of Intended Use: Upper midwestern US from 93…
CS Type: Projected (Northings/Eastings in meters)GCS/Datum: NAD 83Projection Algorithm: Albers Equal Area ConicArea of Intended Use: North America Formal name…
CS Type: Projected (Northings/Eastings in meters)GCS/Datum: NAD 83Projection Algorithm: Transverse MercatorArea of Intended Use: North America from 96 to 90…
Formal name is WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereWeb Mercator is used extensively for displaying spatial information. CS Type: Projected…